Quotes About Resilience

As Woods lay unconscious on the road at 2:25 a.m. on November 27, 2009, blood on his teeth and lips, he finally appeared as he truly was-a vulnerable, fragile, deeply wounded person.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

Always maintain a joyful mind. Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.

Mrs. Lambchop sighed and shook her head. "You're at the office all day, having fun," she said. "You don't realize what I go through with the boys. They're very difficult." Kids are like that," Mr. Lambchop said. "Phases. Be patient, dear.

about the tree.

Just because we are females doesn't mean we

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.

love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.

Lives were complicated. The smallest things could trip you up. Those who could least afford it paid the most. Things could escalate in a heartbeat. The biggest mystery was how to turn it down without bowing down. And a life, in all its singularity and strangeness, was always worth the lifting, the telling, and the protecting, and never only for its fragility.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

Regardless of what occurs on earth, what goes well, what doesn't go well, and all the things that challenge humanity and challenge us personally, the sun continues to rise every morning.

Don't let life's events determine your attitude, let your attitude determine your life..

Discipline is doing what you don't want to do so you can do what you want to do.

Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals.

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

nobody wants to spend money to build a more resilient city because nobody owns the risk.

When people have to pay more and own more of the risk themselves, their decisions about where and how they live will change.

Keep them poor and keep them tired, and they'll never leave." How well he understood his people.

When she learned of the verdicts, Nancy Maddox pulled her granddaughter, Jo Ann, aside and whispered, "Life is like always living under a big rock. Always look at it and pray that it won't fall on you." Nancy felt as though she had been buried under an avalanche.

I think they'll get better a lot faster if we don't spend so much time moping.